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685 Benamozegh Benash

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BENAS, BARON

In 1831 he became assistant professor of theology. His lectures were principally on Biblical literature and exegesis, Semitic languages and paleography. Among his writings on these subjects, published

L.: English communal worker born in Liverpool, England, 1844. Has been throughout his life a leading figure in the Liverpool Old Hebrew congregation, of which he is one of the

the "Jahrbilcher flir Wissenschaftliche Kritik," should be mentioned his treatise "De Hebneorum Leviratu," Berlin, 1835, which won for him the degree of D.D. from the University of Halle.

trustees.

•chiefly in

Bibliography



Brocknaus, Conversations-Lexikon, 13th

ed.;

Le Roi, Gcsch. der EvangelUchcn Judenmission.

BENARY, KARL ALBERT AGATHON: German

philologist; born at Cassel 1807; died 1860; brother of Franz Ferdinand Benary. He received

his education at the gymnasia of GSttingen and Erfurt, studied classical philology (1824-27) at the universities of Gottingen and Halle, and obtained his degree of Ph.D. with the thesis "DeiEschyli Prometheo Soluto. " While teacher at a Berlin gymnasium, he continued, together with his brother, his philological studies at the university under Bopp. From 1833 until his death Benary was professor at the so-called COlnische Realgymnasium at Berlin, and at the same time lectured in the university. He was one of the first linguists who applied the methods of comparative grammar to Latin and

Greek. Unfortunately his work " Die Romische Lautlehre Sprachvergleichend Dargestellt, " 1837, vol. i., remained a torso. Most of Benary 's essays were published in the Berlin "Jahrbucher fur Wissen-

and

in

Kuhn's "Zeitschrift

filr

Vergleichende Sprachf orschung. " In 1848 he sided with the Liberal party. Like his elder brother, he

embraced

Christianity.

Bibliography



Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie,

During the Russian emigration of 1882 he helped found the Liverpool branch of the Russo-Jewish committee, on which was thrown most of the orto

ganizing

work

connected

from Russia through s.

schaftliche Kritik,"



vol.

ii.;

Le

Kol, Geseh. der Evangelvschen Judenmission, 1899, p. 210 SchulnaehrkMen des CSlnisehen ReaJgymnasiums, Berlin, 1861.

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with

England

the

emigration

into the United

States.

Outside the community he has been president of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, to the transactions of which he has contributed many papers on economic, social, and antiquarian topics, including one on the history of the Liverpool com-

munity, 1900. Bibliography



Harris, Jewish

BENASH

Tear Book,

1901, p. 245.

BENJAMIN:

(or BENTJSH), Cabalist of the beginning of the eighteenth century son of Judah Lob Cohen of Krotoschin, Prussia. He wrote the " Shem-Tob Katan " extracts from alleged works of Isaac Luria and Moses Nahmanides, and containing various prayers and formulas illustrating the practical application of the Cabala. Among others there is a prayer by Moses Nahmanides for making oneself invisible to robbers while on a journey the writer adds that he tried it himself and found it efficacious and another prayer for extinguishing a conflagration. Conceived in the same spirit is his other book, " Amtahat Binyamin " (Ben-

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jamin's

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Bibliography



Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. p. 790

Ozarha-Sefarim, pp. Ha,

Benjacob,

P. B.

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